Harry Ransom CenterThe University of Texas at Austin

Search Collections

Elizbeth Bowen:

An Inventory of Her Collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center



TEXT SIZE

Descriptive Summary
Repository Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin
Creator Bowen, Elizabeth, 1899-1973
Title Elizabeth Bowen Collection
Dates: 1923-1975
Extent 13 boxes (5.42 linear feet), 1 galley folder
Abstract Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen brought a painter's sensitivity to her creative writing, incorporating her memories and experiences into short stories and novels. Her collection is composed largely of works and correspondence and reflects Bowen's long and productive literary career. A small number of legal and financial papers are also present.
RLIN Record # TXRC98-A19
Language English.

Administrative Information

Acquisition

Purchases and gifts, 1964-1995 (R2030, R2301, R5155, R6434, R6487, R7629, R8477, R8478, R13296, R13494)

Processed by

Sally M. Nichols, 1998

Restrictions

Access

Open for research

Biographical Sketch

Elizabeth Bowen was the only child born to Henry Cole Bowen and Florence Colley Brown. Though the place of birth on June 7, 1899, was Dublin, her family home was Bowen's Court, near Kildorrey, County Cork, Ireland. Because of her father's law practice, the family divided their residency between Dublin and Bowen's Court. Elizabeth enjoyed a normal Anglo-Irish childhood with her parents until her father suffered a nervous breakdown in 1905 when the pattern changed. Her father was hospitalized off and on for the following few years and, following the advice of his physician, Elizabeth and her mother moved to England to stay with various aunts. As a child Elizabeth insulated herself from stress by paying close attention to her childhood world of the imagination and the part "place" played in her life. A stammar in her speech developed at this time which stayed with her for the rest of her life. Her father recovered by the time she was twelve, but before the family was fully reunited her mother, diagnosed with cancer, died when Elizabeth was thirteen. Maternal aunts, who took over her care, arranged for her to attend a boarding school, Downe House, in Kent, from 1914 to 1917. This school played a significant role in her development as a young woman and as a writer with its emphasis on limiting display of one's feelings and its strong encourgement of sociability at meals. Later Elizabeth was known as a considerate and successful hostess.

Elizabeth enjoyed painting and drawing as a child and in 1918 studied at the London County Council School of Art but withdrew after two terms because of what she considered her limited ability. She was to make use of this painter's sensitivity in her literary work, however. She had done a great deal of creative writing while at Downe House, mainly short stories, and decided this was her calling. She set about incorporating her memories and experiences into her fiction. Rose Macaulay, a friend of the headmistress of Downe House, gave her guidance and introduced her to editors, publishers, literary agents, and others who could help a fledgling writer.

Elizabeth's first volume of short stories, Encounters, was published in 1923, the year she married Alan Charles Cameron, an assistant secretary for education in Northampton. Upon his promotion to Secretary of Education for the city of Oxford she found the intellectual atmosphere of the city conducive to her further development as a writer. Her second volume of stories, Ann Lee's and Other Stories (1926), was followed by her first novel, The Hotel (1927). During her years at Oxford Elizabeth published her second novel, The Last September (1929), and two collections of short fiction, Joining Charles and Other Stories (1929) and The Cat Jumps and Other Stories (1934), as well as three additional novels, Friends and Relations (1931), To the North (1932), and The House in Paris (1935).

In 1935 Elizabeth and Alan moved to Regent's Park in London, which furthered her career. She began writing reviews for the Tatler and in 1938 her novel, the Death of the Heart, was published, followed by Look at All Those Roses: Short Stories in 1941. World War II played a dominant role in her writing as well as in her life. She became an Air Raid Precautions warden which brought her into contact with people she would not have known otherwise and opened up new avenues of interest for her writing. Also she and Alan often experienced the effects of the bombing raids on their own home in Regent's Park. Two of her works from this period, her novel The Heat of the Day (1949) and The Demon Lover, and Other Stories (1945), are considered by some to be among the best records of London during the war.

After the war Elizabeth continued to write short stories and essays, and produced three additional novels, A World of Love (1955), The Little Girls (1964), and Eva Trout; or, Changing Scenes (1968) for which she received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1970. She wrote essays and reviews for the Tatler, the Cornhill Magazine, the New Statesman and Nation, the New Republic, the New York Times Magazine, Harpers, and the Saturday Review of Literature, among others, and became associate editor of London Magazine. After her husband's death in 1952 she spent part of every year in the United States lecturing and working as a writer in residence. Elizabeth Bowen died of lung cancer at her home at Hythe in Kent on February 22, 1973.

Sources

Dictionary of Literary Biography, v. 15 (Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Co., 1983). Dictionary of Literary Biography, v. 162 (Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Co., 1996). Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978).

Scope and Contents

Manuscripts and correspondence make up the bulk of the Elizabeth Bowen Collection, 1923-1975, and reflect Bowen's literary career. The material is organized into four series: I. Works, 1926-1975 (9.5 boxes), II. Correspondence, 1923-1969 (2 boxes), III. Financial and Legal Papers, 1927-1947 (1 box), and IV. Miscellaneous, 1951-1967 (.5 box). Within each series the material is arranged alphabetically by title or author. This collection was previously accessible only through a card catalog, but has been re-cataloged as part of a retrospective conversion project.

The Works Series consists of holograph drafts, typescripts, galley proofs, notes, and fragments of novels, stories, articles, essays, radio broadcasts, lectures, reviews, and translations. The Center has manuscript holdings for the majority of Bowen's novels, including Eva Trout (1968), Friends and Relations (1931), The Heat of the Day (1948), The Hotel (1927), The House in Paris (1935), The Last September (1929), The Little Girls (1963), To the North (1932), and A World of Love (1955). Collections of short stories include Ann Lee's and Other Stories (1926), and Joining Charles and Other Stories (1929); in addition, there are manuscripts for numerous short stories which were published separately in various periodicals; and for unfinished and unpublished works. Manuscripts for her nonfiction works include English Novelists (1942), The Shelbourne (1951), and A Time in Rome (1960). Autobiographical works include Bowen's Court (1942), Pictures and Conversations (1975), published posthumously, and Seven Winters (1962). The radio broadcasts were mainly for the BBC on a variety of topics ranging from literary figures, books, and places, to plays she adapted from her stories for radio.

The Correspondence Series consists principally of letters regarding Bowen's literary work. Outgoing letters occupy two folders and were written chiefly to her literary agents at Curtis Brown; to various publications such as Blarney Magazine, Contact Publications, the Cork Examiner, and Everybody's; and to the Golden Cockerel Press; also to literary friends Joe Ackerley, Daniel George, Glyn Jones, and Grover Smith. Correspondence from Bowen can also be found with incoming correspondence as she had the habit of responding on the verso of incoming letters.

Incoming letters are more numerous and include an extensive correspondence from her literary agents at Curtis Brown; letters from the above mentioned publications, as well as others; and letters from publishers Eyre & Spottiswoode; Longmans, Green, and Co.; and Sidgwick and Jackson Ltd. Among the literary figures represented by correspondence are C.M. Bowra, Agatha Christie, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Cyril Connolly, A.E. Coppard, Cecil Day-Lewis, T.S. Eliot, Graham Greene, Rosamund Lehmann, Rose Macaulay, Ottoline Morrell, John Middleton Murry, Sean O'Faolain, William Plomer, Edward Charles Sackville-West, William Sansom, Eleanor Sarton, Stephen Spender, Elizabeth Taylor, Hugh Walpole, Evelyn Waugh, Veronica Wedgwood, H.G. Wells, Eudora Welty, Edmund Wilson, and Virginia Woolf.

Series III, Financial and Legal Papers, includes royalty statements, tax records, and lists of memoranda of agreement with various publishing companies for publishing rights to Bowen's works. The small Miscellaneous Series contains two typescripts of works by Eudora Welty, "The Bride of the Innisfallen" and "The Wand."

Elsewhere in the Center are eight Vertical File folders which contain newspaper and periodical clippings of articles written by and about Bowen, reviews of her works, and a slim envelope containing items removed from her books, and two scrapbooks of press clippings. There is one photograph of Bowen in the Literary File of the Photography Department. Correspondence and manuscripts relating to the publication of Elizabeth Bowen: A Bibliography by J'Nan M. Sellery and William O. Harris are found in the Ransom Center Archives.

Related Material

Other manuscripts and letters by Bowen can be found in the collections of T.I.F. Armstrong, Jocelyn Brooke, A.E. Coppard, Kay Dick, Graham Greene, Rayner Heppenstall, John Lehmann, London Magazine, Compton Mackenzie, Carson McCullers, Ottoline Morrell, PEN, J.B. Priestley, and R.S. Scott-James.

Index Terms

Correspondents

Bowra, C.M. (Cecil Maurice), 1898-1971
Coppard, A.E. (Alfred Edgar), 1878-1957
Day-Lewis, Cecil, 1904-1972
Eliot, T.S. (Thomas Sterns), 1888-1965
Hartley, L.P. (Leslie Poles), 1895-1972
Lehmann, Rosamond, 1901-
Macaulay, Rose, Dame
Morrell, Ottoline Violet Anne Cavendish-Bentinck, Lady, 1873-1938
Plomer, William, 1903-1973
Sarton, May, 1912-
Spender, Stephen, 1909-
Taylor, Elizabeth, 1912-1975
Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966
Wells, H.G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946
Welty, Eudora, 1909-
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941

Organizations

Curtis Brown, Inc.

Subjects

Authors, English--20th century
Ireland in literature
War in literature
Women and literature--Ireland--History--20th century
Women novelists, Irish--20th century

Document Types

Contracts
Financial records
Galley proofs
Postcards

Container List

Series I. Works, 1926-1975

Untitled stories
boxfolder
1 1 Fragment, nd, 
4pp
About Amy Ticer, nd, 
4pp
About Ellen Nevin, nd, 
2pp
About Leonard Osten, two typescripts with corrections, 7pp and 9pp nd,
boxfolder
1 2 Alfred Knopf, article, nd, 
8pp
3 Ann Lee's and Other Stories (1926), nd, 
179pp
4 Anna, novel, chapters 1-4, nd, 
58pp
5 Ar-Beg
"The Art of Reserve; or the Art of Respecting Boundaries," article, nd, 
5pp
Attractive Modern Houses, story, nd, 
18pp
Autobiographical material for the Broadsheet, nd, 
3pp
Autobiographical note, 3 carbon copy typescripts, two with corrections, nd, 6pp each
Autobiographical note for Everywoman, nd, 
2pp
Autobiographical note for Mademoiselle, typescript with corrections, nd, carbon copy, 1953, 
2pp each
"The Bazaar," story, nd, 
20pp
"The Beauty of Being Your Age," essay, nd, 
15pp
"Beginning of This Day," story, nd, 
4pp
"Bergotte," 1971
boxfolder
1 6 Notes on Proust, holograph draft, nd, 
24pp
7 Typescript and carbon copy with revisions, nd, 
35pp each
8 "Biographical Note" (1948), two carbon copy typescripts, 1948,  
1p and 2pp
9-10 Bowen's Court (1942), nonfiction, typescript with extensive revisions, nd, 
589pp
   
2 1 Bowen's Court (cont.)
2 "Britain in Autumn "(1950), essay, nd, 
10pp
3 Broadcasts, A-L
"A Year I Remember - 1918," 1949, 
21pp
"Books that Grow Up with One," 1949, 
6pp
"The Confidante," 1943, 
18pp
"Crises," 1947, 9pp; agreement with the British Broadcasting Corporation, 1947, 2pp
"The Cult of Nostalgia," 1951, 
7pp
"Elizabeth Bowen and Jocelyn Brooke," 1950, 
15pp
"Elizabeth Bowen to V.S. Pritchett," nd, 
6pp
"How I Write," a discussion between Elizabeth Bowen and Glyn Jones, 1950, 
17pp
"Impressions of Czechoslovakia," typescript with corrections, nd; carbon copy, 1948,  
3pp each
Interview with Elizabeth Bowen by John Bowen, William Craig, W. N. Ewer, 1959, 
16pp
"London Revisited as Seen by Fanny Burney," nd, 
7pp
boxfolder
2 4 Broadcasts, "New Judgment; Elizabeth Bowen on Jane Austen,"typescript photocopy with corrections, 1942, 14pp; typescript photocopy, 1948, 24pp
5 "By the Unapproachable Sea," article, 1943, 
2pp
6 C-English Fiction
"Christmas Games," story, nd, 
18pp
"A Day in the Dark," article, offprint with corrections, nd, 11pp; typescript with corrections, nd, 5pp
"The Demon Lover," story preface, typescript, 1945, 7pp; broadcast of a talk on BBC by Henry Reed, typescript, 1945, 3pp
boxfolder
2 6 "Disappointment" (1954), essay, carbon copy typescript, nd, 3pp; carbon copy typescript with corrections, 1953, 8pp
"The Disinherited" (1941), story, nd, 
10pp
"Encounters," story preface, 1949, 
9pp
"English Fiction at Mid-Century" (1953), essay,  
4pp
boxfolder
2 7-8 "English Novelists," literary history, 1942, 
63pp
9 "Eudora Welty," article, nd,  
17pp
Eva Trout (1968), novel
boxfolder
3 1-3 Typescript with revisions, nd, 
496pp
Part I
boxfolder
3 4 Carbon copy with corrections, nd, 
194pp
5 Rejected drafts of chapters 1-3, 5, 7, typescript and carbon copy with revisions, nd, 
92pp
6 Chapters 1-3, 5-12, typescript and carbon copy with corrections, nd, 
257pp
   
4 1 Part II, chapters 1-3, typescript and carbon copy with corrections, nd, 
186pp
2-3 Rejected pages, typescript and carbon copies with revisions, nd, 
343pp
4 Ex-Fo
"Exclusion" (1962), essay, nd, 
6pp
"Fairies at the Christening," story, nd, 
21pp
"Firelight in the Flat" (1934), story, nd, 
12pp
"Flowers Will Do," story, nd, 
23pp
"Folkestone 1945" (1946), essay, nd, 
9pp
boxfolder
4 5 Friends and Relations (1931), novel, bound holograph draft with revisions, nd, 
345pp
6 G-The Good Earl
"Ghost story," story, nd, 
11pp
"Girlhood," essay, nd, 
8pp
"The Good Earl" (1946), story, typescript with emendations, nd, 16pp; typescript and carbon copy with corrections, nd, 18pp
boxfolder
4 7 "The Good Tiger" (1964), children's story, typescript with corrections, 1964, 10pp; typescript with emendations, nd, 33pp; carbon copy with revisions, nd, 25pp; carbon copy with corrections, nd, 33pp
   
5 1 "Hand in Glove" (1952), story, two carbon copy typescripts with corrections, 1952, 14pp each
The Heat of the Day (1948), novel
boxfolder
5 2-4 Chapters 1-17, holograph draft and typescript with revisions and inserts, nd, 
685pp
5 Publisher's blurb, nd, 
2pp
Holograph corrections to text of printed book, nd, 
13pp
boxfolder
5 6 "Her Table Spread" (1930), story, nd,  
15pp
7 "Home for Christmas" (1955), essay, nd, 
12pp
8 The Hotel (1927), novel, bound holograph draft with revisions, nd, 
339pp
   
6 1 The House in Paris (1935), novel, bound holograph draft with revisions, nd, 
365pp
2 "Hungary" (1948), essay, two carbon copy typescripts, 1948, 10pp each
3 I
"I Died of Love" (1946), story, nd, 
10pp
"I Hear You Say So" (1945), story, galley proof, nd, 3pp [removed to Galley Files]
"The Idea of France" (1944), essay,  
6pp
"The Idea of the Home," essay, nd, 
18pp
"In the Square" (1941), story, nd, 
11pp
Index to the Letters of Flaubert, nd, 
17pp
boxfolder
6 4 "The Inherited Clock" (1944), story, two typescripts with revisions, nd, 22pp and 29pp
Introduction to The Observer Prize stories, two galley proofs, nd, 2pp each [removed to Galley Files]
boxfolder
6 5 "Ireland," essay, nd, 
20pp
6 "Jane Austen" (1936), essay, nd, 
17pp
7 Joining Charles and Other Stories (1929), holograph draft with revisions, nd, 
254pp
Kinsale, Son et Lumière
boxfolder
6 8 Historical notes, typescript and carbon copy, nd, 
9pp
9 Script, carbon copy typescript with corrections, nd, 48pp; typescript photocopy, nd, 35pp
10 "The Last Bus" (1944), story, 1944, 
8pp
The Last September (1929), novel
boxfolder
7 1 Bound holograph draft with emendations, nd, 
385pp
2 Broadcast, typescript, 1948, 
3pp
Preface to 2nd ed. (1952), typescript with revisions, nd, 
7pp
boxfolder
7 3 Lectures
"Language," two holograph drafts, nd, 
4pp and 6pp
Notes for lectures at Vassar College on the short story, in two spiral notebooks, nd
"The Poetic Element in Fiction," typescript with emendations, and carbon copy, 1950, 
14pp each
The Little Girls (1963), novel
boxfolder
7 4 Holograph notes in spiral notebook, nd, 
20pp
5 Typescript and carbon copy, incomplete, with emendations, nd, 
57pp
6 Typescript and carbon copy fragments, nd, 
120pp
7-9 Typescript and carbon copy with revisions, nd, 
466pp
   
8 1 Corrections, holograph draft, nd, 
9pp
2 "The Little Girl's Room" (1933), story, nd, 
20pp
3 Lo-Lz
"Look at All Those Roses" (1941), story, nd 
14pp
"Lost Art of Living" (1948), essay,  
8pp
boxfolder
8 4 Ma-Mi
"Mainie Jellett" (1944), essay, nd, 
7pp
"The Man and the Boy," story, nd, 
10pp
boxfolder
8 4 "Miss Jolley Has No Plans for the Future," story, nd, 
7pp
"Miss Willis" (1952), essay,  
3pp
boxfolder
8 5 "The Most Unforgettable Character I've Met" (1944), essay, nd, 
18pp
6 Mov-Mz
"The Move-In," chapter 1 of an unfinished novel, 1973,  
9pp
"Mysterious Kôr" (1944), story, nd, 
20pp
boxfolder
8 7 Now-Pa
"Now the Day Is Over," story, nd, 
5pp
"On Giving a Present" (1953), essay, nd, 
8pp
"Only Young Once," story, nd, 
10pp
"Opening up the House" (1945), essay, nd, 
5pp
"Outrageous Ladies" (1956), essay, typescript with revisions, carbon copy, nd, 
6pp and 8pp
"Paris Peace Conference: 1946," essay, nd, 
7pp
"Paris Peace Conference: Some Impressions," essay, nd, 
12pp
Pictures and Conversations (1975), memoirs
boxfolder
8 8 Holograph notes, in three spiral notebooks, nd, 
16pp
9 Chapter I, Origins
Holograph in notebook, nd, 
9pp
Typescripts, nd
Fragment,  
1p
With revisions,  
36pp
With emendations,  
34pp
boxfolder
8 10 Chapter II, Places, holograph draft and typescript with revisions, nd, 12pp; typescript and carbon copy draft fragments, nd, 27pp; typescript and carbon copy with corrections, nd, 23pp each
11 Chapter III, People, typescript and carbon copy with corrections, nd, 7pp; typescript, trial endings, nd, 3pp; typescript draft fragments, nd, 11pp
12 Prefaces to
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell, 1951, 
7pp
Persuasion by Jane Austen, typescript with emendations and carbon copy, nd, 
9pp each
The Second Ghost Book, ed. by Cynthia Asquith, typescript, nd; and carbon copy, 1952,  
4pp each
The Stories and Poems of Elizabeth Bibesco, nd, 
6pp
Tomato Cain by Nigel Kneale, two carbon copies with corrections, 4pp each 1949,
boxfolder
8 13 R
"Reduced" (1935), story, nd, 
16pp
"Regent's Park and St. John's Wood" (1949), contribution to Flower of Cities, ed. by Max Parrish, two typescripts with emendations, nd, 6pp and 8pp; two carbon copies with emendations, 1949, 8pp and nd, 9pp
boxfolder
8 14 Reviews of
Arnold Bennett by Reginald Pound, entitled "Celebrity," two carbon copy typescripts with corrections, 1952, 4pp each
Dr. E. OE. Somerville, a Biography, by Geraldine Cummins, entitled "The Big Master," 1952,  
4pp
Dublin: 1660-1860 by Maurice Craig, nd, 
3pp
The Fire in the Dust by Francis Macmanus, entitled "Fire and Water," nd, 
2pp
Ireland and the Irish by Charles Duff, entitled "Come to Ireland," 1952, 
5pp
James Joyce's Dublin by Patricia Hutchins, entitled "Immortal City," nd, 
5pp
Late Arrival by Martha Edith Almedingen, 1952, 
2pp
Portrait of a Genius, But... by Richard Aldington, 1950, 
5pp
Sheridan le Fanu by Nelson Browne, entitled "The Land Behind," nd, 
3pp
boxfolder
8 14 Wait Now! by Rachel Knappett, entitled "Explorer," 1952, 
2pp
A Writer's Diary by Virginia Woolf, entitled "What I Now Want To Do...," nd, 
5pp
boxfolder
8 15 Seven Winters (1962), autobiographical, two typescripts with corrections, nd, 25pp and 26pp; carbon copy with corrections, nd, 26pp
16 Sh-Sti
The Shelbourne (1951), nonfiction, chapter I, "Today," nd,  
8pp
"The Short Story in England" (1945), essay, two carbon copy typescripts, one with corrections, 1945, 8pp each
"Songs My Father Sang Me" (1944), story, nd, 
14pp
"Sources of Influence" (1953), essay, nd, 
4pp
"Still the Moon," story, nd, 
5pp
boxfolder
8 17 "The Story of the Nativity of Jesus; a Reflection," play, nd, 
44pp
   
9 1 T-Th
"A Thing of the Past" (1944), story, nd, 
4pp
"Thoughts in New York" (1950), essay,  
9pp
A Time in Rome (1960), nonfiction
boxfolder
9 2 Prelims, 1960, holograph draft and printer's mock-up; typescript and carbon copy,  
4pp each
Chapters 1-2, nd, holograph draft with revisions, 52pp; holograph and typescript versions with revisions and inserts, 79pp
boxfolder
9 3 Chapter 1, "The Confusion," typescript, incomplete, with corrections, nd, 17pp; typescript, nd, 28pp; two carbon copies with revisions, nd, 16pp and 21pp
4 To the North (1932), novel, bound holograph draft with revisions, nd, 
461pp
5 "The Tommy Crans" (1930), story, boxed, nd, 
13pp
6 "Toys" (1944), essay, carbon copy typescript with corrections,  
7pp
7 Translations of
"Colère" by Jacques de Lacretelle, nd, 
28pp
"L'Education Sentimentale" by Flaubert, nd, 
17pp
boxfolder
9 8 The Letters of Flaubert, typescript, nd, 38pp; incomplete typescript, nd, 14pp; carbon copy with corrections, nd, 40pp
9 Le Temps Retrouvé by Marcel Proust
Vol. I, p. 7, holograph draft with corrections, nd, 7pp; typescript with corrections, nd, 5pp
Vol. II, pps. 9-261, holograph with corrections, nd, 48pp; carbon copy typescript with corrections, nd, 31pp
boxfolder
9 10 "Was It an Art?," essay, typescript, nd, 
9pp
11 "Why Do I Write?," an exchange of views between Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene, and V. S. Pritchett (1948), composite holograph draft, typescript, and carbon copies, nd, 
97pp
12 "Woman's Place in the Affairs of Man" (1961), article, typescript with emendations,  
4pp
   
10 1 "Women in Love," nd, story, typescript with corrections, 26pp; incomplete carbon copy, nd, 21pp
2-3 A World of Love (1955), novel, chapters I-XI, typescript with revisions and inserts, nd, 
318pp


Series II. Correspondence, 1923-1969

Subseries A. Outgoing, 1931-1966
boxfolder
10 4 A-Z
5 Curtis Brown Ltd., 1944-1961
Subseries B. Incoming, 1923-1969
boxfolder
10 6 Unidentified; A-C
   
11 1-4 Curtis Brown Ltd., 1924-1964
5 D-I
6 J-M
7 N-R
8 Plomer, William, 1935-1963, nd
   
12 1 S-Z
2 Sarton, Eleanor May, 1936-1938
3 Welty, Eudora, 1951, nd
4 Woolf, Virginia, 1932-1939, nd


Series III. Financial and Legal Papers, 1927-1947

boxfolder
12 5-6 Financial records, 1944-1956
7 List of memoranda of agreement in the collection, nd
Memoranda of agreement with
boxfolder
12 8 A-B
Albatross Verlag, 1935-1938
Albert Bonnier, Ltd., 1943-1946
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1932-1941
Arnaldo Mondador, 1945-1946
boxfolder
13 1 C-K
Constable and Co., Ltd., 1927-1929
Det Schonbergske Forlag, 1946
The Dial Press, 1927-1947
The Director of Information Services of the Control Office for Germany and Austria, nd
E. Mawby Green and Edward Allan (or Allen) Feilbert, 1940-1943
Les Editions de Jenune Parque, 1946
Ernst G. Mortensens Forlag, 1946
Fontaine, 1945
His Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1947, nd
The House in Paris, Inc., 1943
Humphrey Milford, publisher to the University of Oxford, 1945
Jonathan Cape, Ltd., 1940-1947
boxfolder
13 2 L-Z
Librarie Gallimard, 1939
Librarie Plon, 1938
Longmans, Green, and Co., Ltd., 1939-1943
Luis de Caralt, 1944-1946
Maurice Fridberg, 1946
Oxford University Press, 1946
Penguin Books, 1945
Sfinx, 1946
Strand Film Company, Ltd., 1942
Victor Gollancz, Ltd., 1931-1938


Series IV. Miscellaneous, 1951-1967

boxfolder
13 3 Welty, Eudora
"The Bride of the Innisfallen," typescript with corrections, 1951, 
42pp
"The Wand," typescript with corrections, nd, 
10pp
boxfolder
13 4 Envelopes and folders


Elizabeth Bowen Collection--Index of Correspondents

Index entries followed by the notation (from Bowen) indicate people to whom Bowen wrote. Box and folder numbers followed followed by a number in parenthesis indicate the number of items by (or to) that person. No parenthetical notation indicates there is just one item.

So in the example:

Ackerley, J. R. (Joe Randolph), 1896-1967--10.4 (from Bowen), 10.6 (3)

there is one item from Bowen in box 10, folder 4; and three items from Ackerley in box 10, folder 6.